McGill University's Venky Iyer is a rising star. As well as becoming the youngest Lead Process Engineer at a global engineering and construction services provider, he also later worked on a project for the construction of the world’s largest oil refinery. [read more]

Shiny Zhang chose University of Victoria for its reputation for quality undergraduate education, great classes and programs, and its fantastic environment. She loved the beautiful beaches, the trees on campus, and the university's proximity to Vancouver, British Columbia. [read more]

Chaitanya Manchanda has been hard of hearing since childhood, but he hasn't been one to let his condition get in the way of learning. Having made it through a normal school in New Delhi without special disability services, he saw no reason why he couldn't attend a university with everyone else. He's now in his final year of a computer sicence degree at the University of Windsor.[read more]

Omar Patwari, an international student from Bangladesh, arrived at the University of Windsor campus carrying 60 KGs of luggage. His on-campus residence was only a short walk from where the taxi had dropped him off but even the smallest of distance can be impossible with four suitcases. Luckily, a man noticed Omar's heavy load and offered to help him carry the luggage.. [read more]

What do you call a student who helps raise over $40,000 for research, maintains above average marks in an intensive premedical program, serves as on-campus floor representative and wins the University of Windsor's bursary award? Outstanding, but she goes by Chiamaka Odunukwe. [read more]

Andrew Fortune, a third year Geography and Environmental Studies student at the University of Victoria, had never heard about UVic's co-op education program. Since seeing an advertisement on campus in his third year, he has spent two terms working as a co-op student in British Columbia and one working in New Delhi, India. [read more]

Meghna Kararia did her homework carefully when researching which MBA school to apply to. For the longest time she compared MBA schools from Australia, the U.K. and Canada before deciding on SOBEY MBA program at Saint Mary’s University.  [read more]

It was a simple solution but it took two second year engineering students from the University of Windsor to come up with it.  One month into their work placement with a leading Canadian manufacturing company, twin brothers Luv and Kush Aggarwal discovered a solution that would save their company lots of time, resources and expenses. [read more]

Sergio Salvador had been studying Mechatronics, a multi-disciplined field that includes electronics, mechanics, and programming. Sergio is trilingual and carries an academic average of 97%. For his internship placement he is assisting Algoma University Professor Dr. George Townsend in his Brain-Computer Interface lab, which allows people to communicate with computers and write e-mails using only electrical signals from the brain. [read more]

Iva Peklova came to University of Windsor from Prague, in the Czech Republic. She is a third year Outstanding Scholar in Environmental Science who works with Professor Fisk as his Academic Appointee at the Great Lakes Institute. It means that Iva spends more time in the labs on a top of her already busy academic schedule. [read more]

Jingmiao Shi came to Windsor from central China to study Environmental Engineering. She is one of several international students who qualified and won the Outstanding Scholar award upon entry the University coming directly from high school. She has completed her third year of study and has already worked with Professor Iris Xiu on an air-quality monitoring project at Windsor Airport. [read more]

After two years of job hunting, Madan Roy couldn’t grasp why the skills he developed over 18 years weren’t translating into a professional career. Now armed with a Canadian education and employment resources from the University of Windsor’s Centre for Career Education, Madan’s quest for employment in his field is more attainable this time around. [read more]

Mumbai native Trith Vaishnay was admitted to the Bachelor of Science in Animal Biology program at the University of Guelph. However, he had a change of heart after his first semester and decided he wanted to pursue his passion. Trith recently participated in ‘College Idol’, a fundraiser organized by his Faculty to help the United Way. [read more]